From the Great Migration: Came to New England in 1634 and settled in Dorchester, later moving to Windsor. Made freeman 6 May 1635. He served in the Pequot War in 1637, was a jury member in 1644, and Windsor's tax collector in Feb 1649/50. He owned 7 parcels of land in the Windsor land inventory of 4 Feb 1640[/1?].

Inventory taken 20 June 1662 totalled L343-6-4. Distribution ordered by the court 10 Sept 1662 gave L118 to the widow and L30 each to Nicholas, Thomas, Temperance wife of John Ponder, Sarah, Hannah, and Timothy, to receive it when the sons reach 21 and the daughters 18. "This court also orders that the Estate dist to Elizabeth the wife of Edward Adams shall so remain to her and to her heirs, and that he shall give security that it shall not be alienated". The names and ages of his children were appended to the inventory. (From Diane Delbridge <dlddvm@@ix.netcom.com>)

↑ Coddington, John Insley, "A Clue to the English Home of Richard Voare (or Vore) of Dorchester and Windsor.", in The American Genealogist. (Demorest, Habersham, Georgia, United States: D.L. Jacobus), Vol. 26, p. 69.

Windsor was the first permanent English settlement in Connecticut. Local indians granted Plymouth settlers land at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River, and Plymouth settlers (including Jonathan Brewster, son of William) built a trading post in 1633. But the bulk of the settlement came in 1635, when 60 or more people led by Reverend Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Most had arrived in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England. The settlement was first called Dorchester, and was renamed Windsor in 1637.